We would like to pass on to you this announcement of an Interfaith Paths for Peace event recommended by the  U.S. Department of Peace Campaign of Kentucky:

I hope you will join Interfaith Paths for Peace for a truly extraordinary event from 7:30 to 9:30 p.m. on Wednesday, June 4th, 2008 at the Rudyard Kipling Restaurant. Please see the details about the event below.  You may call us at 214-7322 to reserve your $10 tickets (at a discount rate!) today. 

On that evening we will partner with our friends at "This I Believe" (based here in Louisville) for a very special fundraiser for IPP.  We have invited more than a dozen outstanding citizens from the Louisville Metro area to share with us their personal statements of belief. They will craft those statements in the style of the “This I Believe” radio spots created by pioneering broadcaster Edward R. Murrow in the 1950s and recently returned to the air by Louisville's Dan Gediman. Dan will serve as MC for the program. 

The evening will also include musical responses to the "This I Believe" statements by Jazz master and Zen teacher Dick Sisto. If you are present you will be eligible for one of the door prizes donated by a number of socially responsible local businesses! 

Why have we chosen to do a fundraising event built on the "This I Believe" concept? 

Please let me answer that question with IPP's own "This I Believe" statement. In a word, we are hosting this event because the sharing of beliefs is at the core of IPP's mission to bring people of different religions together for events that spark dialogue. We bring those people together for lectures, films, art exhibits, meditation sessions, musical events, pilgrimages, and interfaith services because we believe that these gatherings foster the kind of dialogue that helps people from very different walks of life understand each other better. The result of that enhanced understanding is a more peaceful community, nation and world. 

Here are the details: 

Interfaith Paths to Peace
 

This I Believe Fundraising Event

(all proceeds benefit Interfaith Paths to Peace)
 

Hosted by Dan Gediman

Creator of the modern “This I Believe” Radio Series
 

with Music by Jazz artist Dick Sisto
 

Wednesday, June 4th, 2008

7:30- 9:30 p.m.

The Rudyard Kipling Restaurant

422 West Oak Street, Louisville, KY

 

What is "This I Believe?" This I Believe is an international project engaging people in writing, sharing, and discussing the core values that guide their daily lives. These short statements of belief, written by people from all walks of life, are archived at www.ThisIBelieve.org and are featured on public radio in the United States and Canada , as well as in regular broadcasts on NPR. The project is based on the popular 1950s radio series of the same name hosted by Edward R. Murrow. For more information visit www.ThisIBelieve.org.
Those scheduled to read short "This I Believe" essays include:
Dianne Aprile, Accomplished journalist, author and educator Carol Besse, Co-owner, Carmichaels Bookstores  Eileen Blanton, Executive Director, Peace Education Program   Jean Edwards, Louisville-chapter, Fellowship of Reconciliation  Ngawang Gyatso, Louisville-based Tibetan monk with Drepung Gomang Institute  Gary Heine, Entrepreneur and Environmental Activist   David Horvath, Co-Chair, Kentuckiana Interfaith Taskforce  on Latin America and the Caribbean   Steve Mershon, Circuit Court Judge   Linda Miller, Executive Director, Dare to Care Food Bank  Judy Munro-Leighton,   Louisville Peace Action Community	Ken Nevitt, Louisville Peace Activist Djenita Pasik, Bosnian Muslim leader Paul Pearson, Director and Archivist, Thomas Merton Center  at Bellarmine University Graciela Perrone, Flamenco dancer and artist Georgia Powers, Civil Rights Leader and former Kentucky Senator Ken and Sheila Pyle, Owners of the Rudyard Kipling and community activists Denton Randall, Louisville radio personality Dick Sisto, Jazz musician and Zen teacher Kim Summers-Bates, U.S. Department of Peace Campaign Kentucky State Coordinator

 

Door prizes provided by
 

Drepung Gomang Institute, Carmichaels Bookstores, Heine Bros.Coffee and Wild and Woolly Video

Tickets $9 in advance and $10 at the door 

For more information call 214-7322 or visit www.InterfaithPathsToPeace.org